Cabrillo College Library

What's on this page

 

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Before we get started -- Earth at Night || Prudhoe Bay || Map of Egypt

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage -<http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Select Reading
  4. Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 255 for J. Hanks
  5. Make it a Favorite -- Towards the top of the screen, click on favorites , then on Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back to it in this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on favorites.
Biography Resource Center
The library subscribes to a variety of fulltext databases that offer rich and diverse information. One of these is especially useful for learning about writers like John Steinbeck and Francisco Jimenez.
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Biography Resource Center

  4. On the next screen, in the search box under the term Author Search, type in your author's name like this:
    When you get your results, click on the line underneath the author's name -- that's the hypertext link to the text about the author.

    If you search for Jimenez, Francisco, you'll have to select the right one!


    Read what is written. Write down something you learned about your author:

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    Once you bring up the whole article, note that you can email it to yourself -- the icon for doing so is towards the top of the page, on the left
Literature Resource Center
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Literature Resource Center

  4. On the next screen, in the search box under the term Author Search, type in your author's name like this:

Click to bring up the full article. Read through it. What is one thing that you learned about the author?

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Online Encyclopedias

The library subscribes to an excellent online encyclopedia. Here's how to get to it:
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Encyclopaedia Britannica (under Encyclopedias/Background Information, in center column)
For Francisco Jimenez's The Circuit, look up this topic: For Steinbeck's The Pearl, look up one of these topics:
migrant farm workers La Paz, Mexico
  cultured pearl
Write down something you learned:

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Watsonville Public Library

If you are in Watsonville, you would use the Watsonville Public Library.
  1. Click to go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Libraries, Other
  4. Click on Watsonville Public Library (it's in the first grouping)
  5. Click on Library Catalog

Do an Author search for Steinbeck, John

Write down information about a book that you found:

What's the book title? ___________________________________

Is it available? (look where it says Status) _________________________
Check for Web Resources

There are a number of search engines that index the World Wide Web. The one you are going to use is called Google -- it's one of the best.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. On the next screen, click on Search Engines
  4. On the next screen, click on Google

Click in the search box and search for "Francisco Jimenez" circuit or "John Steinbeck" pearl. Use the quotation marks to keep the words that make up the name together.Here's an example:

What did you find?
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 Find Magazine Articles

Academic Search Premier lets you search and display fulltext articles from over 8000 periodicals; for over half of those, the articles are available full text. Here's how you use it:
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
  2. Select Academic Search Premier (listed under General, in lefthand column)
  3. On the next screen, click on  box towards the top of the screen.
  4. Click in the small box next to Full Text -- this will limit your search to articles that are full text in the database.

    Type in your search terms and then click on the SEARCH button.

Here's a sample search for John Steinbeck and the Pearl:

Do the same search. From the results list, click on the article title to get full information about it.

Article title___________________________________

Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) ____________________

Date when published __________________ 

Note that you can email the article to yourself -- the email function is at the top of the article.

Images

The Internet is full of fine images. Look for an image using one of these:

To insert an image into a Word document:

  1. Bring up a Word document    START -> Programs -> Word
  2. Go back to your image. Right click on it. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the picture (File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)
  4. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site where you got the image and its URL (Internet address).

If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl V to paste).

Web Sites about Reading

Try out two good Web resources about reading.

NOTE: you have to come back to this page and click on the links below! You made this page a Favorite, remember? Click on Favorites, towards the top of the screen, then on READ 255 Internet Exercise.

Make notes here about something you learned.

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Tell us! Please share your thoughts about this session. Thanks!!

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on English
  4. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page, and under READING, click on READ 255, J. Hanks

J. Hanks, T. N. Smalley, last rev. 2/08